Salt Lake Telegram | 1920-01-21 | Page 9 | "Gimme a Nickel"

I a Nickel The old fashioned boy who had to chop kindling or go to bed without supper now has a son who demands wages for chores What are w we we going to do abo about t this asked members of the Federation Federation Federation Federa Federa- tion of Mothers' Mothers Clubs of Cincinnati who met to discuss the problem several several several sev sev- eral days s ago My children have gotten so they do donot donot not pot want to do a thing unless they are are paid for tor it one mother testified And another said My little girl ir does not like to mop up the kitchen I offered to pay pay her 5 6 cents not so much to get the ork done as as to let lether lether lether her learn how to do it Quite wisely the mothers decided that paying a child for tor work at home is not an evil at all but on the contrary con has positive moral worth A nickel or a dime earned by work ever so trifling has more value to a achIld achild achild child than a nickel or a dime given on demand It stands for work for effort for something given in return We are sorry for the child whose openhanded parents respond alwa always s 's readily to the appeal a nickel They no longer ask for mere I pennies I Easy money is the enemy of thrift Money earn earned d Is less readily spent and having greater value Is less foolishly foolishly fool tool spent Payment for work done by children within the home should be within bounds of course We like the system of the mother who at t the meeting in ln Cincinnati said I pay by the piece For scrubbing the porch my boy gets 5 cents and 2 cents for errands to the grocer I have havea a wage scale for him At the end of the week when he wants money he writes a check against this account I which his father keeps for him I